Bersticker Scott Funeral Home

Scott, Sr., who worked in the funeral home business for 60 years, died Thursday. He was 80.Mr. Scott of South Toledo died in the emergency room of the University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio Hospital, after battling illness for several years family members said. -- ScottEnlargeHis interest in the funeral business began with a college internship at the Paul Dillers Funeral Home, now part of Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services in Bluffton, Ohio. After graduating from Bluffton College in 1958 and attending the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, he moved to Toledo to begin work at the former Bennett Funeral Home.In 1972 he was named manager of the Boyer Van Wormer Funeral Homes, and in 1978, he bought the business and renamed it the Boyer-Van Wormer Scott Funeral Homes. In 1985 he acquired the Bersticker Funeral Home, whose management he slowly gave over to his sons, Charles, Jr., and Robert, as his health deteriorated.“People gravitated towards him,” said his wife, JoAnn. “He seemed to have an affinity at working with people. He never met a stranger, really. You had to have that personality in this business.”Mr. Scott had a passion for woodworking that grew from his fascination with “how buildings came together,” his wife said. Aside from building furniture and modifying houses for families and friends, Mr. Scott enjoyed rebuilding wooden boats. Though his family members would joke that he purchased boats to rebuild them rather than sail them, Mr. Scott did join both the Toledo Yacht Club and Bayview Yacht Club.“He was always jumping in to help people,” said Karen Tesorero, a close friend who first met Mr. Scott when he helped her acquire boat parts at the Toledo Yacht Club.Mr. Scott’s love of building also engendered a passion for cars. He involved himself and his sons in Quarter Midget Racing on Midwestern tracks, and would stay up nights building and rebuilding the car engines his children had blown while racing.“Making... (Toledo Blade)

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 Yuke Sau Loo, a former restaurant chef who emigrated from China in the late 1930s, died Friday at the University of Toledo Medical Center after suffering a heart attack in his South Toledo home. He was 101.Born in 1912 in Kaiping, a city in the Guangdong Province of southern China, Mr. Loo followed his father to the United States at the age of 26. His father, Po Hing Loo, had immigrated several years earlier, co-founding the Golden Lily Chinese Restaurant on Superior Street downtown.“I came to the U.S. to make a living,” Mr. Loo said in a 2012 interview with the Blade. “I didn’t have many choices ... but of course I love Toledo.”Mr. Loo first worked as a waiter and a cook at King Hong Low, a Chinese restaurant on Jefferson Avenue. He refined his culinary skills in New York, returning to Toledo to become a cook and partner at the Rice Bowl restaurant on Sylvania Avenue.After venturing to Detroit, Mr. Loo returned to Toledo to cook for the Golden Lily and John’s Bar, a restaurant that served American and Chinese cuisine. He worked as a chef for Rossford’s Wayward Inn before returning to the Golden Lily.“He worked from the bottom up,” his son David said.The Golden Lily closed in June, 2007, when Lucas County acquired it and other properties for the Huntington Center arena.Mr. Loo opened a Golden Lily at 2223 S. Reynolds Rd. in April, 2011, where customers found the same foods that they did downtown in familiar surroundings. Before the old building was demolished, he stripped the massive wall hangings and ceiling tiles and put them in storage.Mr. Loo completed grade school in China and learned English at the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. Toledo had attracted a large community of Loos, all distant relatives from the Kaiping Province.“When I first came here, I missed home a lot and often wanted to go back,” Mr. Loo said in 2012. “But now that the whole family has immigrated here and I don’t know anyone in my home... (Toledo Blade)